Jonathan
Chase is a professor in animal behavioral sciences at New York University. But
he is also Manimal, a human capable of adopting any animal form at a whim or when
exposed to extreme psychological upheaval. Only two people are aware of this incredible
power: Tyrone Earl, a man who served alongside Chase in the Vietnam War, and Brooke
MacKenzie, a police detective who stumbles across Chase mid-change. Chase uses
his supreme intelligence, logic and material resources to fight crime, utilizing
his animal form to track, fight and scare when the need arises.